This is an analysis of the poem A Greek Girl that begins with:
I may not weep, not weep, and he is dead.
A weary, weary weight of tears unshed... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddeXffffbbbbc cgggghhaae eiibbccaaij bbffjjkkkgg ffaaiif fffll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,10,11,11,7,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111111101 0101010110 1011011111 0101011001 1100010101 1101010001 1100110101 0111110111 1001111101 11111101000 0101010111 1111110111 1001011111 1111011111 1101110101 1110010001 1111111101 1111111011 1111111101 1111110111 01111101001 11011100111 1111010111 11100111010 1101111101 1101010101 0110010101 0101110101 1111011111 111101111 1101011101 0111111100 0101111101 1101010101 1101110101 1101110101 0101010011 1001110101 11110001100 1101110111 1101111101 1111010111 1101010001 1101010001 1001110101 1111000111 1101010001 1111011101 0111011101 1101011101 0111111101 1111011111 1101011111 1101011101 1111111100 1001110101 1111100101 1111010101 0101110111 1101011111 1111011101 1111111101 1011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 471
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, some, sweet, not, had, thrice, and, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, or, o are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hair is repeated).
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